Which One’s More Useful For You? Simple Or Complicated? - Time Tracking Software Reviewed

It’s always good to trach the time you or/and your co-workers spend on a project and there are quite a few options when it comes to software that does it for you. You can choose a simple application with a few features (few but useful) or you can choose a more complicatied application which has more features. It depends on the type of business.

Here are a few options:

Simple:

  • Not too many options, just basic functions like timer and break counter.
  • Very useful for small businesses.
  • You can enter the name of the projects you’re working on.

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Complicated:

  • Easily create, send and manage invoices
  • Track time and expenses (for you and staff)
  • Send invoices by snail mail or email
  • Accept payment with PayPal, Authorize.Net, & more
  • Automatically send invoices & late payment notices
  • Create robust reports and import/export your data

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You can choose the one that fits you best. Good luck

BoxShot 3D - Create Your Own Boxshot Easily

Name:

BoxShot 3D

Features:

  • Software to create your own box-shot easily. Very useful if you have a product to sell or an e-book to promote.
  • The box shots you create will look very realistic as you can see on the image.
  • Available for Windows and Mac users.
  • Where to learn more:

    boxshot3d.com

    Some Screenshots:

    A Very Simple Tool - Temporary E-mail Address

    Name:

    MeltMail

    Features:

  • Creates a mail address that forwards any email to your address and then gets deleted.
  • A very useful tool when signing up to a page which you will probably use only once.
  • After the melting point is reached, they delete your real e-mail address from their database. Very useful
  • Where to learn more:

    meltmail.com

    Need More Online Storage? - How About 25 Gb?

    The Windows Live SkyDrive Team has posted a in-depth post offering a overview of what’s coming with their next update. First and foremost: Windows Live SkyDrive will be boosting everyone’s storage from 5GB to 25GB. Secondly, they want to give you more control over your files by offering you new features to do so:

    Features:

    • Download photos directed to your to Windows Live Photo Gallery.
    • Download as a .zip file. Download an entire folder in one compressed file (initially available only in the United States, Denmark, and Ireland).
    • Move files between folders.
    • Copy files to multiple folders.

    Where To Learn More:

    windowsteamblog.com

    Process Monitor - Making Things Quicker And Easyer

    Name:

    Process manager

    Features:

    • You don’t have to go through that Ctr + Alt + Del process anymore
    • Right click and close/kill any application and save time.
    • Gives you the ability to Prioritize any application ( from the right click menu)
    • Simple and easy-to-use application for beginners too - not like the task manager from Windows where you can mess things up…
    • It’s free so you can try it and if you don’t like it - just go to Control Panel and get rid of it.
    • It is for Windows only.

    Where to learn more:

    nirmaltv.com

    Very Useful Excel Cheat Sheet

    Today I came across a very useful post from Chris Garrett over at Codswallop and I just had to post it. Thanks for the useful information and I hope that through my blog even more people can make excel easier and faster.

    Name:

    Chris Garret’s Excel Cheat Sheet

    excel

    Features:

    • All the useful excel shortcuts in one place.
    • You can print it and have it in front of you all the time.
    • Save time by not right-clicking and choosing the right field - use shortcuts instead.

    Where to learn more:

    cogniview.com

    ZoneAlarm Pro Available For Free?

    Zone Alarm Pro can be downloaded for free on November 18th, 2008. If you read this post and that date is already history, you can’t download it for free. But you can buy it for $19.95 :)

    Anyway, an application worth mentioning.

    Name:

    Zone Alarm Pro

    Features:

    • Firewall. Operating System Firewall, Anti-virus, Anti-Spyware and so on…
    • Plus it can clear private data or just block it and has built in identity theft protection.
    • The auto-learn feature and the game mode give it a bit of extra making it complete. I am really really happy that I got this one for free.

    Where to learn more:

    Free Download

    Zona Alarm Pro (for those who didn’t get the free version)

    Now This Might Improve Productivity

    Remember those movies starting from the 80s where they thought that in the future, computers will understand us? It probably wasn’t available for us mortals until now but all you need is an iPhone and you can test this new application developed by Google.

    Name:

    Google Voice Recognition

    Features:

    • Voice Recognition feature.
    • The sound is converted to a digital file and sent to Google’s servers, which try to determine the words spoken and pass them along to the Google search engine. Why didn’t I think of this until now?
    • The application works and it seems to be better then the ones Yahoo and Microsoft have created.
    • It’s already available on the iTunes Store so you can go ahead and try it.

    Where to learn more:

    nytimes.com

    Use Your Gmail Account For Photo-Sharing

    There are a few features that are much better then what other photo sharing sites are offering.

    Name:

    G PhotoSpace

    Features:

    • First of all, you can share your photos exactly with the people you want. Your photos will never be public…
    • It works even faster then Flickr.
    • And of course, the storage space that Google offers is around 7 GB, so it’s a lot.
    • It’s a free Firefox extension, so all you have to do is install it and restart Firefox.

    Where to learn more:

    gphotospace.com

    Qumana - the Right Blogging Tool For both Mac And PC Users

    Name:

    Qumana

    Features:

    • You can write your posts even if you’re offline, because it has some features which allow you to add tags and, ads and so on (all customizable).
    • No HTML knowledge is required to make your blog look great.
    • Cross-posting ability making it easy for you to post an entry and re-post it to another blog.
    • Easy image upload and alignment.

    Where to learn more:

    qumana.com